One Million Strong Facebook Comment Thread to Set World Record

It took about three months, but 106 dedicated fans of the game Fronterville have posted over one million comments on a single Facebook post, setting what they believe is a Guinness World record.

The thread was started by a woman named Tracey Hodgsen, who on October 30 opened the Ffgpioneers/gwr/attempt group to discussion of any topic for the expressed purpose of breaking the record. Most of the comments that followed are pretty sparse — even by Interent commenting standards — many no longer than a word. But the important thing is they got to a million, or an average of a little over 9000 comments for each person who participated in the quest.

The previous Guinness Record for most comments on a Facebook item is 529,335, set by Robert Esposito, so the Fronterville group would seem like a shoo-in to shatter that mark, when Guinness is able to officially confirm the comment haul.